Community Network Blogs. How many times have you implemented a software project only to be told by your users that it doesn't match the way their process really works? Have email and spreadsheets become your company's primary workflow tool for processes such as employee on boarding, pricing agreements, and travel or purchase requests? If your company were a patient, your doctor would probably prescribe a business process management (BPM) approach. Why? Because everyone is looking for a better way to translate business needs into software. BPM is special in that it focuses on ensuring alignment between business and IT.
Does this mean that you have to replace traditional application tools and packages with BPM? So how and where are companies actually using a BPM approach that includes their SAP environments? We would like to share the results we've compiled so far in the BPM use case wiki. Have you also got a BPM use case to share with us? Greg Chase, SAP NetWeaver BPM Solution Marketing. Process Improvement: Informed & Lean « Thoughts on Collabor. I could call this post “Removing the Risk from Lean Process Improvement” because it starts with the assumption that you want to improve your processes using Lean principles, but you want guidance on how to apply those principles most effectively. Soooo much discussion of Lean last week at the Forrester Forum and the Gartner BPM Summit. Who can argue against Lean? It is after all a focus on providing more value with less waste. Lean is a focus on eliminating waste, the original sevens wastes identified by Toyota, as well as elimination of anything that does not provide value to the customer.
We all want to get rid of waste and inefficiency. How do you identify the waste in your business process? This is harder than you might think. This is exactly what Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. This is exactly what you need for a Lean Process Improvement project. Fujitsu has been offering this service for about a year. Like this: Like Loading... Network Blogs. The combination of Business Process Management (BPM) tools and enterprise services unleashes the full power of SOA and is an exclusive and unmatched offering from SAP. All SAP Community members now have the opportunity to easily access this powerful technology in a test drive.
Effective today, SAP started a beta test for three new pilot Simple Sample Applications using SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) technology. These pilot apps are implementations of small business processes, such as Approve Sales Order Change Request,Approve Purchase Requisition and Create Purchase Order, andManage Leave Request Send us an email to be among the first who get access to these new Simple Sample Applications, and let us know what you think.
Enterprise Asset ManagementHuman Capital ManagementManufacturing ExecutionAftermarket Sales and Service. Network Blogs. In my previous blog Easy process implementation with SAP NetWeaver BPM, I described how easy it was to model and implement a process with SAP NetWeaver BPM which is included in the SAP Composition Environment 7.1 EHP1. At that time I also wanted to use a business rule, created with BRM, within my Expense Demo process. Unfortunately I did not succeed in that. With the help from Arti (SAP Product Management BRM) we found out that this issue was due to the download version I was using. I used build id: 200809132152, downloaded in October 2008. Now with the current download (January 2009) I have build id: 200811082206. These updates made my BRM life much easier as I have my demo process now running as expected. Process I started off with the same process as used in December, the only difference is that a mapping step is added right after the ‘Enter Expense’ step.In short: the entered expense is validated on amount height.
Ruleset To create a rule, you first have to create a rule set: Rule. SOA/BPM Reference Demo Project. Hit the Ground Running in Business Process Management with the Help of Our Process Samples! Ever wanted to know what SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) is all about? Then this is the right place for you! Check out our various industry-specific and cross-industry business process samples. Even if you are into a different industry, use these process samples as reference models and identify the functionality gaps that exist in your own solutions, familiarize yourself with the business process management paradigm, and reap the benefits of a flexible business network.
These business scenarios provided by experienced industry experts are intended to serve as a practical demonstration of the intrinsic business value offered by SAP NetWeaver BPM. Network Blogs. With this blog you will learn how you can sketch, design, build, deploy and run a composite business process from scratch with SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management. With the provided step-by-step guides and source coding, you are going to build an investment approval process which includes human tasks, SAP Enterprise Service and the integration with a decision table which is provided by SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management.
What are the pre-requisites for implementing this composite business process? Please install the trail version of Enhancement Package 1 for SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1. What's the business scenario that you are going to implement? This investment approval process includes: Human tasks: Enter Purchase Request Approve Purchase Request Purchase Order Confirmation Automated Activities: Create Purchase Order (Enterprise Service which is delivered by SAP) Check Amount (Business Rule) Which tutorials will guide you step-by-step to implement this scenario? Network Blogs. Forum Topic. Forum Topic. Network Blogs. Don't get mislead by the title - I'm not violating the copyright act. This blog is not about any comedy science fiction as the book which shares part of this blog's name is, and I'm no Douglas Adams!
This blog is about Netweaver BPM (Business Process Management) which was codenamed as Project Galaxy inside SAP before its release. Netweaver BPM is the next generation of Composition Tools that SAP is developing as part of the its Composition Environment platform. Though it was known to the enthusiastics in SCN for a long time that SAP is going to release NW BPM in later part of 2008, after long anticipitation and wait finally it has arrived silently as a preview version in SCN download section on 5th September, 2008 (maybe as a weekend surprise gift!).
It is part of the SAP Netweaver CE 7.1.1 or EHP1 for SAP Netweaver Composition Environment 7.1. EHP1 for SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 - Preview Version The installation of Netweaver Developer Studio is quite simple. Business Process Management (BPM) - SAP Direct Dials BPM - ebizQ. For the past several years, SAP has been one of the usual suspects in pushing various standards efforts impacting Business Process Management (BPM). Yet to date, SAP has lacked an explicit offering, if you don’t count earlier efforts like xApps. Of course there are loads of third parties that are profiting by exposing and integrating processes painstakingly exposed using SAP’s Business APIs and its more recent Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (ESOA, formerly ESA). But if you know SAP, it likes to boast an extensive third party ecosystem, but it also likes to boast its own all-inclusive wall garden of basic core building blocks. This week at its 2007 TechEd developer conference, SAP finally let the other shoe drop.
Some of the pieces of SAP’s BPM architecture are hardly surprising. What’s intriguing is how SAP will deploy, or execute business processes that are modeled in its tool. In other words, SAP wants to cut developers out of the loop as much as possible.